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Yes We CAN: Photos From This Year's Canstruction Competition

Yes We CAN: Photos From This Year's Canstruction Competition
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The 19th Annual New York City charity Canstruction competition and exhibition has been on display around the World Financial Center for a few weeks—but it'll only be up until tomorrow, so now's your last chance to go take a look at the can-based art for charity. And even if you CAN't make it down there, at least you CAN peruse all the art in the photos above! more ›

100,000 Cans Turned Into Inventive Sculptures For Canstruction 2011

100,000 Cans Turned Into Inventive Sculptures For Canstruction 2011
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Yes, you can enjoy these photos of the 19th annual Canstruction Exhibition, which puts 100,000 boring cans of food to good use by turning them into large-scale, gravity-defying sculptures (for charity). The show, which is part of a public food drive for City Harvest, features designs from 26 architecture and design firms. This year's creations include replicas of Alexander McQueen’s famed Lady Gaga shoes, Angry Birds, the Titanic, a "Don’t Walk" sign, the Brooklyn Bridge, and a working QR Code. more ›

Photos: Canstruction 2010 On View To Help City Harvest

Photos: Canstruction 2010 On View To Help City Harvest
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It's Canstruction time again, everybody! 25 teams of architects and engineers and transformed an estimated 100,000 full cans of food into amazing sculptures, on view at the World Financial Center Winter Garden. The design contest/fundraiser challenges participants to come up with the most impressive can sculpture. It's a competitive field here! We can't decide which one's our favorite; we love The Standard Hotel, but it can't hold a candle to the Super Mario Bros. and Battleship sculptures. We don't envy the judges this year! more ›

Canstruction 2009 Winners Canfirmed!

           

Down at the Winter Garden in the World Financial Center, this year's Canstruction exhibit is underway, with 100,693 cans being used to make ingenious sculptures to benefit City Harvest. All these sculptures were assembled in a single night, and yesterday the winners were announced, with jurors declaring "Feed the Bank (Piggy Bank)," by Arianna Braun Architects, PLLC, best in show. The award for Best Use of Labels went to the Beatles-inspired "We Get By With A Little Help From Our Friends," by Ted Moudis Associates. Best Structural Ingenuity went to "A Fungus to Feed Us" by Platt Byard Dovell White Architects more ›

Canstruction is Up--Remember to Donate Food

      

The annual Canstruction sculptures are on display at the World Financial Center. As the Canstruction website explains, "Teams of architects, engineers, and students mentored by these professionals, compete to design and build giant structures made entirely from full cans of food...At the close of the exhibitions all of the canned food used in the structures is donated to local food banks for distribution to emergency feeding programs that include pantries, soup kitchens, elderly and day care centers." more ›

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